http://mmajunkie.comThe fight card for this month’s UFC 111 event is once again finalized with the addition of an event-opening preliminary-card bout between Matthew Riddle (3-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Greg Soto (7-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC).

As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) first reported last week, New Jersey-based Soto signed a deal with the UFC to replace Ricardo Funch (7-1 MMA, 0-1 UFC), who was forced off the card with a foot cut.

UFC 111 takes place March 27 at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.

Soto, who trains with fellow UFC 111 fighter Kurt Pellegrino, brings to the octagon a perfect 7-0 record, which includes five wins via submission. The two-time Ring of Combat fighter, who’s a Brazilian jiu-jitsu brown belt and instructor at Pellegrino’s Mixed Martial Arts Academy in New Jersey, most recently defeated Ray Steinbess (12-5 at the time) at an October Extreme Beatdown event in North Dakota.

He now meets Riddle, who entered the UFC via the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter.” The Las Vegas-based fighter has spent his entire pro career with the UFC. After a string of unanimous-decision wins (over Dante Rivera, Steve Bruno and Dan Cramer) to open his career, the 24-year-old recently suffered his first pro loss with a third-round TKO defeat to Nick Osipczak at UFC 105 in November.

The official “UFC 111: St-Pierre vs. Hardy” card now includes:

MAIN CARD

Champ Georges St-Pierre vs. Dan Hardy (for welterweight title)

Shane Carwin vs. Frank Mir (for interim heavyweight title)

Jake Ellenberger vs. Ben Saunders

Thiago Alves vs. Jon Fitch

Mark Bocek vs. Jim Miller

PRELIMINARY CARD (Spike TV)

Nate Diaz vs. Rory Markham

Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Brown

PRELIMINARY CARD (Un-aired)

Fabricio Camoes vs. Kurt Pellegrino

Jared Hamman vs. Rodney Wallace

Tomasz Drwal vs. Rousimar Palhares

Matthew Riddle vs. Greg Soto

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